Dec 1, 2007 9:00 am US/Central
Lawyer: Baby Throwing Mom Is Schizophrenic
PLANO, Texas (AP) ―
A mother accused of twice throwing her toddler over a second-story railing for being "fussy" is schizophrenic and took the same anti-psychotic drug prescribed to another woman who cut off her baby's arms, her attorneys said.
The 22-month-old daughter of Padmaja Enjeti fell at least 10 feet and suffered a skull fracture Wednesday, but is now out of the hospital, said Todd Shapiro, one of her lawyers.
Police said Enjeti, 37, told them she dropped the girl over the upstairs railing in their suburban Dallas home because she was being "fussy." The child landed on the floor below.
Enjeti is charged with injury to a child and is being held on $1 million bail. Enjeti's attorneys plan to seek a bail reduction Monday.
"The lady has mental health issues that need to be addressed and can't be addressed in the Collin County Jail," said Howard Shapiro, one of her attorneys.
The girl and her 8-year-old brother have been placed in foster care. Prosecutors would not comment on the case.
A police report alleges that Enjeti told officers she threw her baby over the upstairs railing of her home, went downstairs to pick her up off the floor, then went back upstairs to throw her over the railing again. Enjeti made the call to 911, court documents show.
She told police she suffers from a chemical imbalance and never tried hurting her daughter before, according to the report.
Enjeti took the drug Haldol, the same drug prescribed to Dena Schlosser, who killed her 10-month-old daughter by cutting off her arms in 2004.
Schlosser, who had stopped taking Haldol for her schizoaffective disorder before killing her daughter, was found not guilty by reason of insanity and hospitalized in April 2006.
Enjeti and her husband are from India and have lived in the U.S. for 12 years, her attorneys said. They said the couple work in information technology.
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